- The incident happened at a local pub in Kawuri village, Konduga Local government area of the beleaguered State
A bomb explosion in Nigeria’s north east state of Borno has killed at least nineteen persons.
The incident happened at a local pub in Kawuri village, Konduga Local government area of the beleaguered State.
The Improvised Explosive Device(IED) that exploded was said to have been planted by Boko Haram terrorists.
The incident came three days after terrorists attacked a police station at Jakana town in the same Konduga LGA.
A policeman and one woman were killed in that attack while two patrol vans set ablaze.
The bomb exploded around 8:05pm at a local tea joint where the villagers gathered for a rendez-vous, a local government officer disclosed.
He also disclosed that dozens of people also got injured.
“Nobody can say exactly how it happened, but we suspected that the bomb was planted, not a suicide attack.
“We saw corpses of 19 people with unspecified number of civilians injured. The injured were evacuated to an undisclosed hospital in Maiduguri for treatment,” the souce said on condition of anonymity.
Kawuri community is located around 50 kilometers from Maiduguri, the state capital.
The incident occcured 24 hours after an Accountant working with Local Education Authority in Damboa Local Government Area, Shettima Mustapha, was killed when his vehicle ran into an IED along Maiduguri -Damboa-Biu highway in Borno.
The Police Public Relations Officer for the state, DSP Kenneth Daso, is yet to issue a statement on the incident.
The incident comes on the eve of the planned nationwide protest, which the government has repeatedly said could be hijacked by hoodlums and terrorists
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